avunculus
Latin
Etymology
From avus + -unculus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈu̯un.ku.lus/, [äˈu̯ʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈvun.ku.lus/, [äˈvuŋkulus]
Noun
avunculus m (genitive avunculī); second declension
- maternal uncle, mother's brother
- mother's sister's husband
- great uncle
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | avunculus | avunculī |
Genitive | avunculī | avunculōrum |
Dative | avunculō | avunculīs |
Accusative | avunculum | avunculōs |
Ablative | avunculō | avunculīs |
Vocative | avuncule | avunculī |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: unchi, unchiu
- North Italian:
- Old Venetian: avoncoli (plural, hapax)
- ⇒ Romansch: aug, ô, oc
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: uncle, onclo, hunclo
- Franco-Provençal: onclle, oncllo
- Oïl:
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: ouncle, onclïe, onquille
- Norman: aonclle (Guernsey), oncl'ye (Jersey), onque
- Old French: oncle (see there for further descendants)
- Old Franco-Provençal: uncle, onclo, hunclo
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: avoncle, avonclo, oncle
- Catalan: oncle, onclo
- Old Occitan: avoncle, auncle, aoncle, oncle
- Occitan: oncle
- Old Catalan: avoncle, avonclo, oncle
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: ungël, ungj
See also
- amita (“paternal aunt”)
- matertera (“maternal aunt”)
- patruus (“paternal uncle”)
References
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 941: “oncle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- “avoncle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “avunculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1252
Further reading
- “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- avunculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- avunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette